China News Service, February 15 (Xinhua) According to a comprehensive report, on the 14th local time, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rarely announced the activation of the "Emergency Law" in an attempt to quickly quell the protests that have swept across the capital Ottawa and other major cities, as well as in the Canada-US border area.
FILE PHOTO: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The Associated Press said Trudeau had ruled out the use of the military.
According to reports, under emergency measures, the Canadian government can declare the ongoing protests in Ottawa to be illegal, clear the venue by towing protesters’ vehicles, etc., and use the federal police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, on a larger scale.
However, some protesters said that unless they were violently cleared, they would stay in Ottawa to protest to the end.
Since the end of January, a large number of protesters composed of truck drivers and other people from all over Canada have held large-scale and sustained rallies and demonstrations in the capital Ottawa and many other places across the country to oppose the public epidemic prevention measures such as the mandatory vaccination of the new crown vaccine implemented by the Canadian government.
Among them, police detained several demonstrators at the border crossing in Surrey, British Columbia.
In Ontario, convoys of demonstrators headed to the Peace Bridge crossing near Niagara Falls to protest, but have yet to close the crossing.
Demonstrations and blockades also continued at two Canada-U.S. border crossings in Coutts, Alberta and Emerson, Manitoba.